said he, presenting them to me, and when thou seest me dead, shoot one of these arrows at me, and I shall revive. I promised him I would, and desired him to tell me the name of him whom we saw laid upon this throne. It is, replied he to me, the prophet Solomon his ring is all-powerful; it was by the means of that that he subjected men, genies, and animals, and rendered himself master of the world. As he said these words, he put his foot upon the throne, and used his utmost endeavours to take off the ring. Then there arose from beneath the throne a serpent which threw down Uffan, and struck him dead. I shot an arrow at him, which immediately restored him to life. Uffan made fresh efforts, but with no better success. The serpent killed him a second time. I made use of the same means to restore him as before. If thou revivest me once more, said Uffan to me, I have nothing more to fear, and shall be the happiest of mankind. He endeavoured again to take the ring, and again the serpent put trim to death; and at that moment, when I was going to shoot the third arrow, the heavens were darkened, a dreadful thunder was heard, and the whole rock shook. I fell with my face upon the ground; and when I had recovered my spirits, the serpent looked upon me with indignation, and said to me, What has engaged thee to serve this sacrilegious wretch? If thou hadst not the protection of Mahomet, thou shouldst undergo the same fate with him. I hastily threw down my bow and my third arrow. This submission made the serpent retire, the air again grew calm, and I thought only how I might leave this dreadful place. 1 rubbed my feet with the marvellous oil of which Uffan happily had given me the bottle, and I walked upon the sea. I crossed six different oceans, without meeting any thing. It was not till I arrived at the seventh that I perceived an island, which appeared to be of gold; but I was terribly affrighted when, turning my eyes upon the island, I perceived men of a most singular figure, who came up on all sides with drawn sabres, and prepared to attack me; I pronounced the name of God, and they immediately stopped and sheathed their sabres. What seekest thou in this is land? demanded they? I seek Mahomet, replied I. Their chief then spoke, and told me, that having been permitted to appear in their island, they would do every thing they could to serve me. I conjured him to let me be conducted as speedily as possible to the place where he thought I might salute the holy prophet. I can make thee no answer upon that subject, said he; I will do for thee the only thing that is in my power. Immediately he ordered one of their horses to be saddled. I testified my gratitude by my tears, and would have embraced his knees, but he prevented me; and the horse being come, he whispered a word in his ear. I mounted him, and in a moment he conveyed me hither, threw me into the court, and I immediately lost sight of him. Then Zesbet, speaking to them all, said, you are all witnesses of my submission to the orders of my father; you saw them written with his own hand; the prodigy is convincing, and the goodness of heaven to you manifest. I protest to you that you are all four equally dear tome; yet I can marry only him who has seen the prophet Mahomet; none of you, therefore, can be my husband. A clap of thunder which they heard now drew all their attention. They saw an old man appear, august by the masculine beauty of his features and by the length of his beard, the whiteness of which equalled that of his vestment. He leaned upon a naked sabre, in which he put his trust; a shining white cloud supported him. At this sight they prostrated themselves, not daring to look upon him, who appeared to them with so great a splendour. Arise, said he to them. Look upon me, I am Mahomet, enjoy a happiness which none now upon earth must have, and which will be envied by all ages. The promises of the sage Oncha will be accomplished in thy person, Zesbet : thy virtues and thy beauty have engaged me to prefer thee before all the daughters of Mecca; thou for the future shalt be named Aminta. Then turning to the husbands, You have seen me, said he to them, she is your's, you are her's. those who shall follow the law which I am to preach may have four wives. Zesbet shall be the only one who shall lawfully possess four husbands at once: it is the least gift which I can grant to her of whom I choose to be born. As he finished these words, Mahomet disappeared. All Zesbet and her four husbands lived in the most perfect harmony, and in due time the holy prophet was born. Varieties. DEFINITION OF THE WORD BANKRUPT.-A bankrupt (bankus ruptus), is so called, when the bank or stock is broken or exhausted; the owner is then said to be a bankrupt. This word is also derived from the French word banquerot, which signifies a breaking or failing of the world, Banque, in French, is as much as mensa, in Latin; route the same as vestigium, and this term is said to be taken from the Roman Mensarii, which was set in public places; and when a tradesman slipped away with the intention to deceive his creditors, and only left some vestiges or signs of his table or shop behind him. BANKERS.-The monied goldsmiths were first named bankers, in the reign of Charles the 2nd, as appears by the words of an act passed in the 22nd and 23rd of his reign:-"Whereas several persons, goldsmiths and others, by taking up or borrowing great sums of money, and lending the same for extraordinary hire and profit, having gained to themselves the names of bankers, &c. &c. DERIVATION.-The Bag of Nails, at Chelsea, is claimed by the smiths and carpenters in its neighbourhood, as a house originally intended for their peculiar accommodation; but had it not been for the corruption of the times, it would still have belonged to the Bacchanals, who, in the days of the rare Ben Jonson, were accustomed to make a holiday excursion to that pleasant part of the environs of London. One age has continued to convert Bacchanals into Bag o' Nails; may not a future age take the liberty of converting the term Bacchanalians into Bag o' Nailians.' CANINE SAGACITY. At the commencement of the French Revolution, a dog went every day to the military parade, which was held in the area in front of the palace of the Tuilleries, placed himself among the musicians of the band, with whom he went through every evolution, and, after parade, withdrew tilk next day, when he regularly reappeared at his usual hour. The pleasure which the animal evidently took in the music of the band, and the regularity of his attendance, soon excited the interest of the men, who frequently invited him to partake of their dinner, by caressing him, and saying, Pirade! tu viendras diner aujourdhui avec moi. This was enough; the dog followed his host, eat his dinner gaily, and with a good appetite, after which no caresses could induce him to remain; he invariably went to spend the evening either at the French or Italian Opera, where he entered without ceremony, took his place in the orchestra, and remained there till the performances were over. Le Mentor. A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. -The late Admiral Montague, when at Boston in America, walking in the streets on a Sunday, was taken up by the saints there, and put in the stocks. This indignity he submitted to without any apparent uneasi➡ ness; but on the day he meant to sail for England, be sent cards to the mayor and aldermen to dine on board his majesty's ship. After dinner, he called all hands, and ordered the boatswain to give them a dozen a-piece, which they submitted to as resistance would have been in vain. Now, gentlemen, said the noble admiral, adieu! I could not resist the inclination I had to give you my Roland for your Oliver! CLOSE QUARTERS.-A young ensign, residing in lodgings, the rooms of which were very small, was visited by a fashionable friend, who had no sooner entered, than he exclaimed, "Heaven defend me, Charles! where do you find space to breathe in here? why there's hardly room for a cock to crow in!" How long have you lived in this nut-shell?" "Not long enough to become a kernel," replied the other. BRAVERY. Prince Eugene was, perhaps, at one period of his life, the most popular man in Europe, equally admired for his successful bravery in the field, his discernment in the cabinet, and his conciliating manners in social life. By the English he was received with enthusiasm, as the friend and fellow-soldier of Marlborough. His whole soul, it appears, was devoted to war; and so accustomed was he to bloody campaigns, that in the memoirs he gives of himself, he speaks of an army not as a collection of men who possess immortal spirits, but as files, columns, and divisions, to be manœuvred about as so many little combatants on a chess board. To a reflective mind, a field of carnage must appear an awful scene, but this military hero passes over it with undiminished gaiety, and hears the groans of expiring thousands with as little disturbance as the wind which agitates the trees, or the waves which fall in a regular succession on the shore. It is, ANECDOTE OF A DOG.-A QUART BOTTLES.-Some economical quart bottles are blown at the rate of fifteen or sixteen to the dozen; which deceitful practice once roused sir Boyle Roach, in the Irish House to Commons, to propose an act, "That every quart bottle should hold a quart.” Printed and Published by CowIE and STRANGE, 64, Paternoster Row, and 24, Fetter Lane. No. XIV.] SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1827. [PRICE ld. HORRIBLE CRUELTIES OF THE DUTCH. The island of Amboyna lies near Se ran, the chief town of it hath also the same name, and is the rendezvous for the gathering, and buying of cloves; the English lived in that town under the protection of the castle, which was garrisoned and well manned by the Dutch. It happened that in the year 1622, a Japan soldier discoursing with the Dutch sentinel of the castle, was sus pected, tortured, and confessed that divers of his countrymen had contrived with him to seize and surprise the cas tle; also one Price, an Englishman, and prisoner with them, accused other Englishmen of the factories, who were ail sent for, and put to horrid torture. The manner was this: first, they hawled up the prisoner by the hands, with a cord against a large door, fastening him upon two staples of iron on the top, as wide as his arms could stretch, his feet hung to the ground, stretched out at length, and full wideness, fastened beneath the door; then they wrapped a cloth about his neck and face so close, that no water could go by; then pouring water leisurely upon his head, and filling the cloth up to his mouth and nostrils, that he could not draw breath, but he must withal suck in water, they so continued, till it forced his inward parts to come out út his nose, eyes, and ears, stifling, and choking him into a swoon or fainting; but being taken down, they made. him vomit the water, and being somewhat recovered, they tortured him again four or five times, his body being swollen three times bigger than before, his cheeks like bladders, his eyes staring out beyond his eye-brows; one Colson being thus tortured, yet still denied their accusation, whereupon they burnt him under the paps, armholes, elbows, hands, and feet, till the fat dropped out of their torches; they then lodged him in a dungeon, where his flesh putrified, and maggots bred in it, to a horrid and loathsome condition, till at the end of eight days they were executed, in March, 1623, at which instant there was a sudden darkness, and a tempest that forced two Dutch ships out of the harbour, which were hardly saved: the dead were all buried in one pit, and one' Dunkin their accuser stumbled at their grave, and fell stark mad, and died so within three days afterwards.---Hist. K. James, p. 577. THE BORDERER'S LEAP. Esselstone Heath, on the northern side of the borders, is the entrance to one of those jumbles of rocks and mountains, which seem to have been destined by nature for the haunt of such wild and desperate characters as held in these districts their reign of blood and terror, before the union of the two kingdoms, and for some time after. It was there that the Raven of Hornscliffe, as he was called, one of the last of the " border thieves," terminated his career in a manner well worthy of his life. The crime which led to this catastrophe, although not unparalleled in the annals of the period of which we write, would seem, to the refinement of modern taste, too gross for historical detail; it may suffice, therefore, to say, that at the marriage of one of his enemies, which was celebrated that morning, the Raven made his appearance a guest as unlooked for as unwelcome-with a numerous train of followers, massacred a great part of the company, violated the bride before the bridegroom's eyes, and set fire to the house. Unexpected. succours, however, arrived, although not before the work of revenge had been but too well accomplished; the assailants were assailed in their turn, when least prepared for defence; the bridegroom liberated, whom they had intended to carry off as a prisoner, and their chief obliged to betake himself to flight, alone and unarmed. It was the afternoon when the outlaw arrived at the borders of the heath, and his breath came freer as he felt the cool air from his own mountains, and saw the declining sun, which hung over the cliffs to which his fugitive steps were directed, pointing, as it were, to the place of their mutual repose. He was alone and unarmed--for his sword had been broken off to the hilt; a host of enemies were behind, and his place of refuge yet distant. He did not rest till he had reached the base of the ridge of mountains which forms the termination of the heath; but his exertions during the latter part of the journey, although not less steady than before, were less violent. Towards the conclusion of the race, although the foremost of his enemies was then distinctly in sight, the pace of the outlaw became gradually slower, and at length he threw himself down by a small stream of water that gushed out of the cliff, and turned his eyes deliberately upon the heath. As his pursuer approached nearer and nearer, it could be seen that he was a young man, of a strong, athletic make; in his right hand was a sword covered with blood, which the mid-day sun had baked into a crust on the blade ; and in his left he held a costly handkerchief, such as was at that time worn on holiday occasions by females of wealth or rank. He was dressed more like a chambering gallant than a rough warrior, who seeks the brown heath with the naked brand; but the disorder of his apparel, which was torn and daubed with the marks of mortal strife-his long hair hanging in clotted heaps on his half naked shoulders-and his wild and ghastly aspect, where fury, horror, and despair, were written in mingled characters seemed yet fitter for the lonely heath than the festive hall. When he saw his enemy fall down by |